Swans Way - Soul Train (1984)

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  • @davybee5424
    @davybee5424 2 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    Am 66 now, retired merchant navy seadog..1 st heard this in a Peterhead bar back in 1984...timeless track..

    • @robertjohnston4280
      @robertjohnston4280 ปีที่แล้ว

      This has a bleak intensity to it that is quite splendid.

    • @markwhite5465
      @markwhite5465 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      With you there..I'm 60 and this still calls me.

  • @DanHunterSportsWriter
    @DanHunterSportsWriter 9 ปีที่แล้ว +79

    Very few hit songs are completely unique, but this really is. Just astonishingly good.

    • @k3zzyP
      @k3zzyP 9 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      +Dan Hunter totally agree..I've still got it on the original 7in vinyl :)

    • @rjjcms1
      @rjjcms1 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I too miss this kind of individuality.

    • @davidchipps
      @davidchipps 5 ปีที่แล้ว

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    • @BoudicaJ
      @BoudicaJ 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@davidchipps erm...no it really doesn't

    • @davidchipps
      @davidchipps 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@BoudicaJ BAITER GO MASTER YOUR BS.

  • @oolongoolong789
    @oolongoolong789 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    What an underrated band. And this is one of Swans Way's best songs.

  • @sparksfansince1974
    @sparksfansince1974 11 ปีที่แล้ว +47

    such a beautiful song,better times back then,better people,better life,better songs,just......better

  • @ysb844
    @ysb844 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    cant belive its not on spotify. absolute classic along with scarlet fantastics no memory

  • @richardhughes8968
    @richardhughes8968 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    If you're here you were among the cognoscente of the 80's

  • @dawnross2514
    @dawnross2514 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Been looking for this song for 40 years!!!

  • @rosslynmcmahon1193
    @rosslynmcmahon1193 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    August 27 2024...I remember this so well. I was 17❤

  • @christinepyke6291
    @christinepyke6291 8 ปีที่แล้ว +35

    I HAVE LOVED THIS SINCE I FIRST HEARD IT..WHAT AN AMAZING SONG...

    • @peternicklin2693
      @peternicklin2693 8 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      this got me through my boring day"s on a £25 a week yts scheme, as a 17 year old. this, the cure,echo and the bunnymen ,depeche mode on my walkman. good day"s christine.

    • @kev66slamnet
      @kev66slamnet 8 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I was not long out of the £25 a week humdrum you speak of Peter, though I was a YOP(just prior to YTS). Local Palais material as you say, Cure, Echo, DM, early Minds and this gem. Not forgot you Christine Pyke...fully agree.

    • @peternicklin2693
      @peternicklin2693 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      what career did fall into after your yop, i joined the army to get out of this country and the 3 million long dole queue, i must be the only person to look forward to a tour of northern ireland.

    • @louiselevell8151
      @louiselevell8151 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Same! Loved them ever since I first saw them on tv. Gutted to never see them live as I was under 18 and looked about 12!

  • @MisterBethany
    @MisterBethany ปีที่แล้ว +4

    First heard decades ago, on original release. Absolutely brilliant, surprising, energising, emotional, exciting - and I still think that whenever I hear it now, 40 years later, which is quite often as I have copies and it also plays on my 'head radio' quite frequently as well as being on pretty mcuh ever mixtape I've made since then. A genuinely remarkble, clever and creative record, and it disappoints me that no-one involved really benefitted from it. And this isn't just misplaced sentiment for 'when I was young' either - I was in my thirties and a serious jazz and blues fan.

  • @RichardCalladine-u1o
    @RichardCalladine-u1o 24 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Havent heard this in ages! The vibe is in infectious....love it!

  • @KAZ132
    @KAZ132 2 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    I've fell in love with this Song all over again... Wonderful ❤️

  • @ssdinky64
    @ssdinky64 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Remember hearing this at The Dirtbox in London and Bournemouth with Dirtbox Phil so many great memories with some truly great friends...but lost touch with a lot of them, some gone but never forgotten, some well and truly forgotten and the others not sure where they are in the world. Healthy, safe and well I hope, God bless n one love

  • @fincooper2195
    @fincooper2195 10 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    I remember seeing this on TOTP and been gob smacked , this track is still one of my favorites.

    • @mikekaraoke
      @mikekaraoke 9 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      +fin cooper What a top 20 smash, Could come out now

    • @louiselevell8151
      @louiselevell8151 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Same! ☺️

    • @DanHunterSportsWriter
      @DanHunterSportsWriter 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yep totally agree. One of those TOTPs moments like the first time I saw Bowie, the Pistols, The Associates and The Smiths

  • @paulharris6886
    @paulharris6886 4 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    The epitome of ‘cool’. How this never got to no. 1, I have never understood. Takes me back to Oxfam suits and the same feeling I got from early Roxy. When rooting through my vinyl I always grab it. Great tune, great vid👌

    • @simonpeach1705
      @simonpeach1705 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      But did you have the what became the indie obligatory working man tweed/posh dead bloke whose relieved wife is happily donating everything he owned to Barrnados all purpose overcoat?
      Me too.😅

    • @paulharris6886
      @paulharris6886 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@simonpeach1705 Oh, yes! What got me was the dry cleaning cost more than the jacket or coat 😂. But the great thing was, the Pringle Boys just did not get it 👍

  • @arita2006
    @arita2006 14 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    What a brilliant song, good to know others feel the same!

  • @davidbreen8702
    @davidbreen8702 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    How good is this song? Remember seeing this on the Tube. Nearly 40 years down the line and it still sounds ace

  • @jupidapamo
    @jupidapamo 13 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    The memories of getting dressed up to go out to this song!

  • @michaelvronksy8748
    @michaelvronksy8748 7 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Fantastic! One of the greatest songs ever...

  • @brrrainy5477
    @brrrainy5477 5 ปีที่แล้ว +33

    Still on the Soul Train in 2020

  • @artherdaily
    @artherdaily 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    such an underrated song

    • @Carnivalihq
      @Carnivalihq ปีที่แล้ว

      Not by me its not!

  • @pan1ck1ng
    @pan1ck1ng 13 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    I remember Tony Wilson plugging this song years ago and thought it was brilliant !!!
    Took me a few hours tonight to find it and it was worth it :)

  • @jaydee4674
    @jaydee4674 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Love this ever since I first heard it in the 80's

  • @Morticia1963
    @Morticia1963 7 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Saw them in concert in Hull back in the 80s. Managed to meet them afterwards too.

  • @edwardmulholland7912
    @edwardmulholland7912 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I have this single, but it at the time of release. Not heard it for years.

  • @journeybymoonlight3216
    @journeybymoonlight3216 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I love this song I can play it over and over.

  • @shanesparks349
    @shanesparks349 10 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I remember this coming out of nowhere back in early 1984. Great little song.

  • @andrewgambles5247
    @andrewgambles5247 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Remember this playing constantly at home eldest brothers were big fans have to say class song biblical

  • @adamcole4623
    @adamcole4623 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Such a shame there's absolutely nothing by this fine band on Spotify.

  • @katemarkham1366
    @katemarkham1366 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    So a head of its time pure class

  • @alixsix3941
    @alixsix3941 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    So cool, i just stumbled on this band very impressive gutted i missed them in the eighties but im now a fan!!

  • @adebcfc885
    @adebcfc885 10 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    wow, blown away again (30 years after the 1st time!), fantastic song!

  • @stevenboswell7536
    @stevenboswell7536 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Great stuff.still on YTS at time.Steven Boswell.edinburgh

  • @benheathcote9904
    @benheathcote9904 9 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    When Morrissey was a guest reviewer in Mojo magazine for the new single releases back in '84 this was the only record he had anything positive to say about, describing it as 'moderately listenable'. Well that's as good a compliment as you're ever gonna get from Mozza.

  • @ledivo59
    @ledivo59 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Brilliant, but sadly very short-lived 😙

  • @tafftich
    @tafftich 14 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    2 band members went on 2 become scarlet fantastic-check out NO MEMORIES-brill

  • @ianjames8794
    @ianjames8794 6 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    Takes me back to the 80's. When I was thinner, had more hair and probably more wise.🤔

  • @taffboyslim
    @taffboyslim 12 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    God bless Google & TH-cam!! This song completely passed my by in the 80s - and I was supposedly 'into' this sort of stuff. Then, a couple of years ago, a mate in work gave me the 'Edge of the 80s' CD, but it wasn't until last week that I put disc 2 in my car CD player. When this track came on I thought WTF??!! I am now completely hooked on it and have to listen to it at least once during every car journey.

    • @kobalt77
      @kobalt77 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      O M G, this is exactly the same story as me. I was 24 when this came out and going clubbing every weekend, but for some reason this one escaped me. I,m guessing I must have heard it once or twice ,but never enough for it to sink in. Like you I discovered it again a few years ago on Edge of the 80s CD. I literally could not believe how good it is and that it was like a new song to me. Amazing !!

  • @lego5aside
    @lego5aside 11 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I danced to this at chicos 7,on Saturday night in Hanley, just brilliant .......

  • @davidchipps
    @davidchipps 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    1984, such great, unique, music.

  • @geekpie100
    @geekpie100 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    When you think you have heard everything from the early 80s, you find one you somehow missed.

  • @ivorbiggun710
    @ivorbiggun710 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    A great song. The 12" version is even better. More visceral, somehow.

  • @stevebrindle1724
    @stevebrindle1724 8 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Great song and a pretty unique sound

  • @rayygun
    @rayygun 7 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    i had the 12" of this, played it to death. Got to have one of the best arrangements going, so much stuff happening , full of atmosphere and hope.

    • @GeorgeThomas93
      @GeorgeThomas93 ปีที่แล้ว

      So did me big brother, i played it LOUD every time he stepped out the door. Classic vinyl.

  • @stevebowness9435
    @stevebowness9435 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Wonderful Song.

  • @marckuehl3431
    @marckuehl3431 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    immer wieder Gänsehaut. Soul Train holt mich voll ab.

  • @michaelvronksy8748
    @michaelvronksy8748 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Simply marvellous...

  • @carissteadman6999
    @carissteadman6999 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Always loved this track.

  • @nickball2010
    @nickball2010 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Still sounds brilliant.

  • @chrislewis-n3v
    @chrislewis-n3v 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    one of the great forgotten singles

  • @davidhill2889
    @davidhill2889 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Brass blows me away.

  • @macintosser
    @macintosser 11 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I still ADORE Swansway... back then, I wanted to look like Maggie and sleep with Robert Shaw. I thought they were quite the two most beautiful creatures that graced this planet.
    Cherry Pop should have done something really big THIS year, trying to get a massive hype going, since it's been 100 years since Marcel Proust published his "À la recherche du temps perdu"...

  • @nicholashindle2084
    @nicholashindle2084 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Awesome time to be 20

    • @grahamcheesman2252
      @grahamcheesman2252 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I was 17 and was amazing time, feel privileged to have lived those times. Would go back in a heartbeat to make sure I realised how good it was and warn people how bad life is now❤

  • @2new4me
    @2new4me 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Yepp, still on the soul train 2021 :-)

  • @charliecroker6445
    @charliecroker6445 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    First heard when it came out when i was stationed in Scotland , oh so long ago now , what times i had though.

  • @brownson1970
    @brownson1970 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    always adored this track, nothing like it was around either,

  • @SuperVoodooguru
    @SuperVoodooguru 12 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I aiways think of this when I get the train from Waterloo that leaves around this time.

  • @patrik-vw4ek
    @patrik-vw4ek ปีที่แล้ว

    A great tune... girlfriends come and go but the music stays.😊

  • @mandyjudkins1913
    @mandyjudkins1913 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Classic 80s.sauve and sophisticated

  • @futurefreak8789
    @futurefreak8789 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Brilliant..then they move on to form Scarlet fantastic..No memory

    • @skintslots
      @skintslots ปีที่แล้ว

      I'd forgotten that one but then remembered the lady band member in both videos.

  • @stephengowdy620
    @stephengowdy620 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Cool classic this is

  • @lupa6956
    @lupa6956 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    This was so classy in 84, I was 18, and would glam up in 40s dresses (Yes, vintage was a thing then too) and dance away at ‘alternative’ club nights

  • @KevinWainwright-gq6bx
    @KevinWainwright-gq6bx 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Best 80's tune ever

  • @getalet
    @getalet 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Never forget this track. Think I have it on tape somewhere. Probably from a John Peel session.

  • @redmanthinks
    @redmanthinks 12 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Rather brilliant.

  • @gib70
    @gib70 ปีที่แล้ว

    Has stayed with me since I first heard it, I think on the tube.

  • @Nigeljohnlong
    @Nigeljohnlong 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    This is Class....Simples...

  • @calebrush3833
    @calebrush3833 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Illuminations was the name I was looking for.

  • @DingKong
    @DingKong 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Underrated 80s song

  • @mariaobazs4649
    @mariaobazs4649 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    2021 we are on our own soul train , you rock everyone, Love always wins , Thankyou everyone of you beautiful people 💓🌹🌸🥰🌼💕😘😂🥂🌱😝😍🙂🙃🌼and yes you are strong enough xxxx

  • @robertjohnston4280
    @robertjohnston4280 ปีที่แล้ว

    Intense emotion - quite overwhelming!

  • @lastrada52
    @lastrada52 12 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    This band had some set of horns. For an eighties band surrounded by other bands and their cold synths they cooked hot instead -- with a great jazz groove with wonderful arrangements. They deserved better. They were exciting, different and tight. Overlapping vocals that were brilliant. Call and response. If remember the lp jacket credits there were many members who made this happen. The extended remix is even hotter than this.

  • @jimmyoconnell6167
    @jimmyoconnell6167 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I love this number

  • @gregroberts2748
    @gregroberts2748 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Perfection.

  • @matthewbeumer3168
    @matthewbeumer3168 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Superb! Matt the Siouxsie fan

  • @davidsingleton1371
    @davidsingleton1371 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    loved it at the time

  • @tractor1873
    @tractor1873 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Omg. Can't believe this on here?! I have the original vinyl album. Still just brilliant! 👊

    • @markwhite5465
      @markwhite5465 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I have the 12" its a great mix..

  • @davidwaterhouse2552
    @davidwaterhouse2552 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Always Loved this tune! WHY weren't they massive? dx

  • @apathyintheuk265
    @apathyintheuk265 ปีที่แล้ว

    Gothic Jazz. There, nailed it!

  • @markswallow752
    @markswallow752 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    greatest

  • @caroleannrice
    @caroleannrice 10 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Remember them well saw them at the Triangle - remember that? x

    • @simonvander71
      @simonvander71 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I saw them all over Birmingham including one gig at the Opposite Lock club where some punters attacked the band

    • @louiselevell8151
      @louiselevell8151 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yes!! I was gutted I couldn’t go! 😩

  • @woobaby79
    @woobaby79 9 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    I love the song, I really do but someone once told me the lyrics were "smells like pee on the soul train"
    ...and now that's all I can hear!

  • @MrGuypeters
    @MrGuypeters 9 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Great little number from this time, a shame they never followed it up with anything quite as memorable thereafter!

  • @stevenboswell7536
    @stevenboswell7536 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    How often do you hear a Forgotten gem like that.Steven Boswell.edinburgh

  • @sb6678
    @sb6678 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    This used to terrify me when I heard it, I always imagined being lost at an abandoned train station in the middle of the night when hearing it. Traumatised me for years.

  • @MizzSparkle90
    @MizzSparkle90 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Quite left field, but daaaamn... the whooowhooo chorus.. 😍😍

    • @atomictraveller
      @atomictraveller 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      this is the last train
      to expo 67
      are you comming ha

  • @ocyrus70
    @ocyrus70 14 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    just a great upload mekonin top top tune!!..

  • @lovewalruss
    @lovewalruss 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Nice

  • @toddrobson9228
    @toddrobson9228 10 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    One of the greatest one hit wonder songs.

    • @Harrylechat01
      @Harrylechat01 7 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      The whole album is brilliant; still listening to it today

    • @MisterBethany
      @MisterBethany 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I have absolutely loved 'Soul Train' since first hearing it in 1984. genuinley brilliant one-off creation, like nothing else then or now. It appears on my head-radio quite regularly. The album doesn't - can't - compete, but I'd recommend a listen to any Soul Train as you might get something I don't. This single is a perfect example of the possibility of a one-off genius moment - I'm still hoping for mine....

    • @brianwoods2395
      @brianwoods2395 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@MisterBethany .....Behave yourself....the album is totally brilliant......

    • @natureclips5849
      @natureclips5849 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      The original tpau

  • @emmanuelbd1997
    @emmanuelbd1997 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Cultissime

  • @DanielleKingdjdinosaur
    @DanielleKingdjdinosaur 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    classic

  • @nervo6321
    @nervo6321 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Love this song...even though it is a bit creepy !

  • @JeuneFilleaCarnival
    @JeuneFilleaCarnival 14 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    @ChanceChaser thats exactly how I always felt about this video. pop music will never ever be this organic or genuine again

  • @Zac2Hartsie
    @Zac2Hartsie 9 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I REMEMBER GOING TO A RECORD SHOP IN DUNDEE IN1984 SITTING ALL DAY WITH TEN PALS BUT THEY DIDNT SHOW UP I LIVED IN THE CITY CENRE AT THE TIME SO WE ALL GOT DRUNK X

    • @JonathanGoslan
      @JonathanGoslan 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      I was at the art school then. This period is Dundee for me...blue mountains bar, fat sams etc

  • @juiceterry67
    @juiceterry67 11 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Feck, thats great.

  • @juliepolk4778
    @juliepolk4778 13 วันที่ผ่านมา

  • @folkq
    @folkq 14 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    ah'm not strogonoff!

  • @lewis72
    @lewis72 ปีที่แล้ว

    Excellent sound. Could be a Dexy's track !

  • @davidhill2889
    @davidhill2889 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Swans way, supposed to be 2nd best book ever written.

  • @christosdiamandis8520
    @christosdiamandis8520 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Top